'Societies' don't raise kids, parents do

Las Vegas Review-Journal ^ | 18 Feb 07 | VIN SUPRYNOWICZ

[Calpernia]

No, that wouldn't be fair to broadbrush. I make comments like that from my perspective which is based on what I see where I live.

You are more removed from the liberal strong hold (in comparison to where I live). I would absolutely send my kids to the public schools in your area. And since I pay so much money for the schools, I should be given the option of using them.

[Calpernia]

>>>could teach the Mafia a thing or two about extortion and coercion

Who taught who?

[Gabz]

I totally understand your perspective in regard to where you live. The same is true in Delaware, which is why I udnerstandexactly what you are saying. I saw it happen with my nieces. The only say the parents have there is to vote NO on the referendums for more money.

[Jo Nuvark]

[...We used to be an innovative, problem-solving, "can-do'
People. The first step is to get over this presumption
that raising kids is a problem to be solveD collectively,
"as a society," through means of government coercion...]

The only thing Hillary's village can raise is the village idiot!

[S.Elaine]

By the way, welcome to freerepublic.

Thank you. :-)

[Politicalmom]

Not everywhere. I can make one phone call, and any questionable curriculum would become "opt in" by the end of the call.

[Doc91678]

Only Socialist Communist Societies raise children in Bulk. Hitler tried it and so did Stalin's Communist Russia try it. It didn't work then and it won't work now, especially in America. However, The Progressive Marxist Left will do whatever it takes to bring America and the American way down.

[Calpernia]

>>>The only say the parents have there is to vote NO on the referendums for more money.

We have done that. Our state vetoed our votes whenever we succeeded. So, there is still no say (here).

[Calpernia]

I did correct my broad brush reference in 21. I tend to forget sanity exists outside the walls when locked in the asylum of our state.

[S.Elaine]

Did you hear that Kentucky was trying to get a bill passed making it legal for the police to take a child into custody if it was not in school but out in public during school hours?

Kentucky: Bill Allows Police to Take
Children into Custody--Calls Needed Today!

Dear HSLDA members and friends,

There are two bills in the Kentucky Legislature which would permit local law enforcement officials to take children, including homeschool children, out in public during normal school hours if they appear to be compulsory attendance age.

Under House Bill 309 and Senate Bill 183, police could take any school age child into custody and transport them to a facility operated by the board of education if they suspect the child should be in school.

The purpose of this bill to enable greater authority for local school boards to track down children who are truant from public school.

However, these bills could hinder lawful homeschool parents from allowing their children out in public during normal school hours for fear of their children being stopped, questioned, and possibly taken into custody for up to two hours.

Source-HSLDA

[Gabz]

A couple of school districts tried that in Delaware....they got slapped down pretty hard.

But then they just turned around, changed their tactics (read propaganda) and tried again 6 months later.

[Calpernia]

I think we have a few threads on that.

[SoftballMominVA]

.......if public school is such a wonderful thing why do we hear too often of children taking guns to schools and killing fellow students and teachers?

Good point, because the killing of innocents cannot happen other places, such as at malls.

[S.Elaine]

Good point, because the killing of innocents cannot happen other places, such as at malls.

Or abortion clinics?

[rellimpank]

---and it doesn't happen very often--the media, however, thrive on blood--especially if it ties in with the anti-gun agenda--

[SoftballMominVA]

the media, however, thrive on blood--

Very true - if it bleeds, it leads.

[Doc91678]

Fine with me. They were called truant officers in my day. As far as home schooling goes, I'm not in favor of that either. But at the same time I'm against teachers imposing their sexual and political views on children. Those Progressive Marxist Liberal teachers that use Russian History text books translated into English should be banished from teaching and the real American and World History books used in classes.
Good old reading, writing and arithmetic should be taught. As I have seen kids getting out of College can't even write a a proper paragraph when requested in the corporate world. Now why is that. Is it our permissive society, or is it the teachers who are not qualified that are teaching our children?

[S.Elaine]

There is a big difference in a truant officer that would take the child straight to school if it is caught outside of school during school hours and not with a parent and a police officer taking a child into custody, even if it IS with a parent outside of school hours.

I find it odd that you admit to having problems with public schools but aren't in favor of homeschooling as an alternative.. what do you have against it? Homeschooling isn't what it was back in the 70's and 80's. All of the homeschooling parents that I know are thinking of their children first and making sure that they DO graduate highschool and college able to write a proper paragraph. They (we) also want to keep teachers from teaching our children that 'it's okay to be gay'.. and that isn't their personal belief, that's required by the public school system. As are many things that you might think are teachers teaching their own beliefs. I'm not saying all schools or all teachers are evil, I'm saying our school system has big problems.

Homeschooling today means we have the ability to choose from a variety of curriculums (available online) whether it be very faith based or not at all faith based and since our children have more of their 'teacher's attention many times we can teach our children much more than they would get in school.

I think the reason many are against it is they think a person has to have a degree to teach and that isn't necessarily true of the grade school/high school years, college, yes... the younger grades, no.